Samsung Galaxy Note 3

I dropped my flagship Samsung S24U one time. I was running and it slipped out of my back pocket. That 1 meter fall resulted in calls unable to be placed, USB charging and ABD does not work, and the microphone for the voice recorder does not work. All that indicates that the daughterboard cable was displaced. But the unworking rear camera indicates that there is a second fault in there as well. Not to mention the alarmingly large dent in the corner, that shattered the screen protector and likely would have resulted in the screen itself having shattered if no protector were on it. New phones are designed to break. Contrast with my Note 3 that I carried for 8 years without so much as cracking the screen once.

i have good memories of my Note 3. samsung was pretty cool back then. i bought some galaxy s 5 years ago for a lot of money, then it got splashed with water and died. stupid waste of money. i've had my current oppo for 3+ years and he's a trooper, and it was about half the price of a similar-spec samsung. samsung is overpriced shit.

You should really look at the S series by Samsung. I've been using Note devices since the Note 3, I would not give up the stylus for anything at this point.

My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones. I really, really wanted to be happy with them but they've been a never ending source of frustration. My pixel 5 just stopped turning on one day about 2 years in, and my pixel 7 pro had the volume and power buttons fall out about 3 weeks in (not due to a drop, after googling it's apparently a very widely seen issue). The service with iFixit was unhelpful, they told me "We keep seeing this and Google says this is wear and tear. We can't submit it for a warranty repair, and if we try we end up eating the cost". After finally complaining on twitter I was contacted by some support person who said to give iFixit this email and they would fix it. They still refused, and after a few more rounds of interactions like that I eventually bought some replacement buttons on Amazon, popped them in, and put a case that covers them on it. I'm fully expecting this to randomly die some time before 2 years is up. Combine that with Google's extremely strong tendency to abandon everything, promises like these seem well, worthless. Meanwhile my daughter is using my wife's old iPhone from 8 years ago. My Samsung note 3 and my s8 still boot up and work just fine (though I cracked the screen on one about 5 years ago). It's just so obvious that these phones are very low priority to Google, while other companies base their business around their phones.

>It is USB 2.0 because the iPhone uses the previous generation A16 SOC which was designed around the Lightning port. I know, but as a paying customer I don't care what their bs technical limitation was when my old Samsung Note 3 had USB 3.0 10 years ago so it's not like USB 3.0 is some brand new sci-fi tech that's difficult to figure out like EUV litography. How's this for a fix: They could have put the newer SoC with USB 3.0 in those phones as well and not artificially gimp them like that. How can I not feel scammed when a company treats it's customers like that?

I remember being completely impressed by my Note 3 (10 years ago almost exactly) playing games like Dead Trigger 2 and NFS: Underground. From then on, GPU performance / graphics on these tiny displays seemed good enough for me with only minor subjective improvements. I'll second another comment, that another big challenge is the simple lack of ergonomics on any phone.